Pizzahead

Template:HeaderTemplate:Infobox enemy Pizzahead is the true identity of Pizzaface and the final boss of Pizza Tower.

Description

Pizzahead is a tall and lean humanoid pepperoni pizza slice wearing a white shirt with a red bow tie, red cheeks, white gloves, blue overalls, brown shoes, and a big red nose. He also holds a brown smoking pipe in his idle animation. He doesn't appear to take anything seriously, and constantly wears a huge grin. He almost never opens his eyes.

Personality-wise, Pizzahead is shown to be cheerful, unhinged, and comically villainous. He is lenient towards Peppino and takes delight at hurting him as comedically as possible. This is shown as he had broadcasted all of Peppino's suffering during his run throughout the tower and threatened to destroy his restaurant at the beginning.

Pizza Boy, a pizza mascot who appears throughout the tower in the form of cardboard cutouts and posters, bears a striking resemblance to Pizzahead. It is likely that he created the Pizza Boy mascot himself, basing it on his younger form.

Boss Room

Following Pizzaface's defeat and transition into phase 2, the background shifts to be much more outlandish and surreal, with scrolling spirals, TVs displaying Pizzahead, the sky fading into purple, and the moon now bearing his grinning face.

When Pizzaface's health is depleted, his face opens up to reveal Pizzahead within, on the toilet reading a newspaper. Pizzaface explodes, launching Pizzahead into the air. He lands head-first on the ground while the players hp goes to max and Peppino screams in terror (like usual). Pizzahead gets up and laughs at him before continuing the fight.

When phase 3 starts, the background becomes much darker, with a raging storm raining down and the occasional lightning strike. The Pizzahead moon is now eclipsed.

Pizzahead lays on the ground and pretends to be defeated for a couple seconds, then spins back into a standing position, seemingly unaffected by Peppino's repetitive attacks. He walks to the right edge of the screen and summons all of the previous bosses to fight Peppino, much to his dismay. Pizzahead laughs at him, which sends him into a pure state of rage as he clutches his hands onto his head, before screaming as hard as he ever could, scaring the bosses.

Peppino goes completely ballistic and pummels all of them into submission, repeatedly battering them until they fall off the tower. After dealing the final blow upon Pizzahead, Peppino starts mercilessly beating him until they reach high up in the sky. Peppino proceeds to piledrive Pizzahead straight back into the tower, resulting in a supernova.

After defeating Pizzahead, the background returns to normal, an opening in the floor becomes accessible, and Pizzahead's head is lodged into the floor. In the ending, you can see him beaten down alongside the remains of Pillar John. If you have colIected all of the Tower Secret Treasures, they will resurrect John to his true form and Pizzahead will once again spin back up unharmed, before receiving a well-deserved uppercut directly into the sky from John.

Boss Behavior

Phase 2

At the start of Phase 2, Pizzahead will run to the right, pull up a pistol pickup, and throw it to the player. The player uses the pistol through the entirety of Phase 2. Afterwards, Pizzahead runs across to the other side of the tower, and reaches below to pull up one of 6 attacks. After taking 3 hits, a broken Pizzaface will spawn and start dropping cogs that roll towards the player.

Regular shots can take one of Pizzahead's HP in 22 shots, and take a total of 176 shots to take down Pizzahead.

Tumbling Television

Pizzahead will pull up a TV, showing a terrified Peppino. The TV will bounce 3 times before shattering. As Pizzahead loses more health, the speed of the TV will increase.

Dynamite Drop

Pizzahead will pull out 5 sticks of dynamite and throw them in random spots, similar to The Vigilante's attack that has the same behavior.

Bullet Spray

Pizzahead will pull out a blue mini uzi, identical to the one used by The Vigilante, and shoot cheese bullets in several directions. During this attack, the safe spot is staying on the ground. Once out of ammo, Pizzahead will throw the uzi, which can also deal damage.

Ground Grabbin'

Pizzahead will pull up a small chunk of the tower still attached to a sword used for Knight Peppino, which launches up several Forknights. When these Forknights hit the ground, they die and throw up their forks, which can damage the player.

Rat Scavenger

Pizzahead will put on baseball clothes and throw a Stupid Rat at the player. The rat will bounce until he hits the wall, in which he then returns to Pizzahead. As Pizzahead loses more health, the amount of times the rat will bounce on the ground increases.

Small Mistake

Pizzahead will pull up a pinup picture of himself in a bikini. He will look embarrassed, then quickly put the picture back down. This has no effect, and Pizzahead pulls up another attack shortly afterwards.

Phase 3

After getting hit 8 times, Pizzahead will recover from any damage done to him. He then pulls up the four previous bosses, and starts to laugh at Peppino. Peppino, finally coming undone from all he had gone through up to this point, clutches his head and maniacally screams at the top of his lungs, scaring both Pizzahead and the other four previous bosses, causing The Vigilante, The Noise, and Fake Peppino to fly off-screen as a result. Peppino then charges at Pepperman and pummels him in a state of insanity.

From this point, the player must go through a boss rush with the four previous bosses one by one. Whenever Peppino hits a boss, he will rapidly attack them, doing 4 damage for each boss' HP. The bosses use attacks throughout both phases of their respective fights. After defeating Pepperman, Gustavo will appear for the player to grab and throw him at the remaining 3 bosses to stun them.

After defeating Fake Peppino, Pizzahead reappears to fight Peppino once again, and uses 4 different attacks. He has 3 full HP bars, and requires 6 hits to defeat. The only moment he is vulnerable is at the end of every attack, where he laughs at the player, similar to The Noise’s taunting. His attack window becomes smaller as he loses health. After each hit, he changes his attack pattern:

• Somersault; Boxing Gloves
• Somersault; Flyswatter
• Somersault; Sumo Stomp
• Somersault; Boxing Gloves; Flyswatter
• Somersault; Sumo Stomp; Boxing Gloves
• Somersault; Boxing Gloves; Flyswatter; Sumo Stomp

Somersault

Pizzahead will jump over Peppino in an acrobatic way. This move is always used first during any of his patterns.

Boxing Gloves

Pizzahead will adorn a pair of Boxing gloves as he shuffles forward, and will attempt to hit Peppino at close range.

Flyswatter

Pizzahead gets out a flyswatter and will dash across the arena while swinging it around, similarly to Pepperman's shoulderbash attack, but he isn't stunned when he hits the wall.

Sumo Stomp

Pizzahead's body will grow large, and he will stomp the ground with one foot. If Peppino is on the ground when Pizzahead stomps, he will be stunned and launched into the air.

Peppino’s Beatdown

After hitting Pizzahead 6 times, Peppino begins to rapidly batter Pizzahead. During this, they slowly rise up into the air, and once they are high enough, Peppino piledrives Pizzahead back into the tower. Pizzahead then appears to be upside down with his head stuck inside the tower.

Trivia

• Pizzahead may be inspired by the popular McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald, and his costume in the credits epilogue may be a reference to this.
  • His powerful nature and the intensity of his battle might also be a reference to the MUGEN iteration of Ronald McDonald, which is infamous around the engine's community for the brutality of the AI and his insane specials, combos, and hyper behavior in general.
• Pizzahead might have also been inspired by the similarly named Pizza Head from Pizza Hut's "The Pizza Head Show" ad campaign.
• Pizzahead, once defeated, does not give a rank, but defeating them without being hit once grants a Chef Task completion just like how P Ranking the other bosses do.
• Given that Pizzahead and Pizzaface attack Peppino separately during phase 2 of the boss fight, it's possible that Pizzaface is a separate entity from Pizzahead, rather than just being a machine piloted and built by him. This is also supported by the fact that when Pizzahead is revealed at the start of phase 2, he doesn't appear to have been paying attention to the fight or controlling Pizzaface at all, instead sitting on a toilet and reading a newspaper nonchalantly.
• According to the concept art, Pizzahead has a bunch of attacks that were left on the cutting room floor:
  • One attack had Pizzahead pull up a bomb and carry it. If Peppino tried to attack Pizzahead while he had the bomb, Pizzahead would quickly give Peppino the bomb and run away, likely giving Peppino the now-scrapped bomb transformation.
  • Pizzahead's hand would loop around and snatch up the Peppino head that used to sit in the old HUD. He would then throw the head and it would bounce across the floor. It was likely replaced with the TV attack to accommodate to the current HUD.
  • Pizzahead pulls up Gustavo, and then throws him forward.
  • Pizzahead wears a musketeer hat and has a sword fight with Peppino in the knight transformation.
  • Instead of throwing the Stupid Rat, Pizzahead would quickly shove it into his mouth and regain some health.
  • Pizzahead pulls up a present box, and is punched in the face by the boxing glove inside. The glove would then detach from the spring and hit the ground behind Pizzahead.
• Also according to the concept art, Phase 3 would originally have Pizzahead go insane and drop all cartoonish props in an attempt to fight Peppino with his fists. This phase was scrapped because McPig wanted to keep Pizzahead's image as a goofy clown. Scrapped attacks from this phase include:
  • Pizzahead doing a spinning punch.
  • Pizzahead doing a spinning kick.
  • A move where Pizzahead dashes forward and then slams his fist onto the ground.
  • A move where Pizzahead winds up and performs a kick that extends across the stage.
  • A move where Pizzahead slams his face onto the ground and starts running across the stage.
  • Pizzahead screaming at Peppino to "GET OUT", which he would've needed to crouch to avoid.
• When Pizzahead pulls up a section of Pizzascape, he does so by grabbing a sword used by the knight transformation but it remains stuck in the rock, possibly referencing the legendary sword Excalibur, which is often depicted as being found stuck in a rock. It can only be pulled out by the divinely appointed king. This suggests Pizzahead is unworthy of wielding the sword while Peppino is, due to a couragous heart within the stressed and nervous exterior.
• The vocals for Pizzahead's boss music (Unexpectancy Part 2) were sourced from the 1920 song "After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It)" by Irving Berlin.

Gallery

Regular Animations

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  Pizzaface opening up, revealing Pizzahead.

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  Pizzahead being launched after Pizzaface explodes.

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  Pizzahead landing after being launched.

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  Pizzahead's walking animation.

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  Pizzahead preparing to pull up an object.

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  Pizzahead pulling up a pistol pickup.

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  Pizzahead's idle animation.

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  Pizzahead throwing an object and shrugging.

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  Pizzahead pulling up a pinup picture of himself.

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  Pizzahead pulling up a stick of dynamite.

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  Pizzahead pulling up and throwing the TV.

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  TV.

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  TV bouncing off the floor.

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  TV debris #1.

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  TV debris #2.

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  TV debris #3.

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  Pizzahead pulling up an uzi.

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  Pizzahead shooting himself with an uzi.

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  Uzi.

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  Pizzahead pulling up a part of a level, possibly Pizzascape.

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  Pizzahead pushing down a part of a level.

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  Pizzahead pulling up a Stupid Rat, then changing outfits.

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  Pizzahead in a baseball outfit idling.

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  Pizzahead throwing a Stupid Rat at the player.

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  Pizzahead catching said rat.

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  A Stupid Rat.

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  The Stupid Rat after hitting the wall.

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  Pizzahead's hurt animation during final attack zoom.

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  Pizzahead faking death before going into Phase 3.

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  Pizzahead recovering into Phase 3.

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  Pizzahead pulling up a boss during the start to Phase 3.

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  Pizzahead becoming scared after Peppino yells.

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  Pizzahead preparing to use a flyswatter.

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  Pizzahead using a flyswatter while dashing.

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  Pizzahead using boxing gloves to punch.

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  Pizzahead walking toward the player in Phase 3.

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  Pizzahead walking away from the player in Phase 3.

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  Pizzahead stomping on the ground.

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  Pizzahead jumping in Phase 3.

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  Pizzahead's hurt animation.

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  Peppino preforming an open-palm strike on Pizzahead.

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  Peppino kicking Pizzahead in the chin.

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  Peppino punching Pizzahead.

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  Peppino punching Pizzahead.

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  Peppino uppercutting Pizzahead on the chin.

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  Peppino kicking Pizzahead in the chest.

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  Peppino ramming his head into Pizzahead's face.

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  Peppino kicking Pizzahead right on the cheek.

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  Peppino punching Pizzahead in the stomach.

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  Peppino hitting Pizzahead with his shoulder.

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  Peppino uppercutting Pizzahead.

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  Peppino ramming his feet into Pizzahead's torso.

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  Peppino preforming an open-palm strike on Pizzahead.

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  Peppino punching Pizzahead to the left.

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  Peppino punching Pizzahead into the air.

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  Peppino piledriving Pizzahead by the head.

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  Close-up shot of Peppino piledriving Pizzahead into the Tower.

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  Pizzahead's head stuck in a cracked floor after being defeated. The entire sprite is not normally seen in-game, due to it getting cut off of the screen.

Arena

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  Arena phase 2 background. Purple sky with Pizzahead moon.

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  Arena phase 2 background decoration #1. Swirls and blue balls.

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  Arena phase 2 background decoration #2. TV with Pizzahead.

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  Arena phase 2 background decoration #3. TV with Pizzahead.

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  Arena phase 2 background decoration #4. TV with Pizzahead.

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  Arena phase 3 background. Red sky with moon.

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  Arena phase 3 background decoration #1. Clouds.

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  Arena phase 3 background decoration #2. Rain.

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  Arena phase 3 background decoration #3. Lightning.

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  Arena ground with hole.

In-game miscellaneous

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  Pizzahead's HP icon.

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  Pizzahead beat up in the game's ending.

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  Pizzahead flying away after getting hit by John.

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  Pizzahead, dressed as a clown, sneaking into the costume party. Appears in a scene during the ending.

Scrapped animations

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  Pizzahead's phase 3 idle animation. Used in the October 2022 Build.

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  Pizzahead's stunned animation. Used in the October 2022 Build whenever Pizzahead is hit by Gustavo, which isn't possible in the final game.

Concept Art

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  Concept art for Pizzahead's boss fight.

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  More concepts.